The PICNIC name represents everything we strive to be. It is a gathering of friends old and new, where everyone brings something to the table. People from diverse backgrounds come to exchange ideas and insight in an informal, social atmosphere. It’s a chance to try new things and expose yourself to ideas outside your area [...]
Calendar of Events
Innovation Management Workshop
Indutech, renowned business engineers and innovation specialists, will be presenting a 2-day innovation management course in Midrand in September 2010. The course strikes a strategic balance between flexibility and structure covering a variety of innovation related topics ranging from the basic definitions through to developing an innovation capability improvement programme in a company. Several of [...]
September 27, 2010
CHAMPS and CBI Executive Seminar on Discontinuous Innovation
Professor John Bessant, September 27th. This seminar is about innovation as a survival imperative. Unless we change what we offer the world and the way we create and deliver them, there is a good chance that we may not survive in today’s hostile business environment. Making a success of innovation depends on active management – [...]
October 16, 2010
34th Annual Global Conference on Product Innovation Management
The Annual International Conference is designed for professionals from corporate leaders to practitioners in the field of new to product development, management and innovation, as well as academics and service providers. For more information click here.
October 27, 2010
Entrepreneurial Partnerships Innovation Conference
EPIC is a unique face-to-face opportunity for discovering high-value projects & ventures. Holistic by design, this program delivers cross-functional & cross industry representation where the common denominator lies in innovation, specifically commercialization. It creates & facilitates an open market for win-win partnerships. EPIC challenges the “typical players” to develop innovative business models for bringing underutilized [...]
November 9, 2010
Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010
Just as Symbian has broadened its mission to driving innovation throughout the mobile space, we are also redefining the landscape of our annual event to engage and inspire the brightest and most enthusiastic minds in the industry. SEE 2010 is not a tradeshow—it is a place for the wider community to come together, make cross-industry [...]
November 18, 2010
Master Class Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This “Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation” course is directed toward Corporate and Start-up entrepreneurs interacting in an Open Innovation setting, responsible for building new businesses based on breakthrough technologies. It is also designed for managers responsible for new business model implementation in an Open Innovation context targeting long-term corporate growth, including: Corporate R&D; New Business [...]
January 14, 2011
Participatory Innovation Conference 2011
Participatory Innovation gathers theories and methods across academic fields that describe how people outside an organisation can contribute to its innovation. Join this conference to help identify ways for industry and the public sector to expand innovation through the participation of users, employees, suppliers, customers etc. – both on a strategic level, in concrete methods, [...]
January 24, 2011
10th Annual MRT/PDMA International Congress on Co-Development and Open Innovation
The TENTH annual conference on Co-Development and Open Innovation: Accessing Networks & Knowledge to Create Business Value will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona from January 24-26, 2011 at the brand new Talking Stick Resort. You can expect to hear from and network with top open innovation thought leaders and advanced practitioners across multiple industries on [...]